Behind the Scenes of Our Post About the Guy Who Broke the Seinfeld Door

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Max Read

06/26/15 08:00AM

Yesterday, we published a post called “Real-Life Kramer Breaks Door Instead of Delivering Unhinged Racist Rant.” Here is the editorial discussion, held in the gawker-editors Slack chat, that preceded it.

[1:53 PM] taylor: anyone have a hed suggestion for this Hulu’s Seinfeld Apartment Exhibit Broke On the First Day

[2:01 PM] Jason Parham: i also like tom’s Like Seinfeld, Man Who Broke Seinfeld Door Is Not Funny or Interesting

[2:01 PM] Leah F: i like real life kramer

[2:01 PM] Caity: This really is...a story about nothing

[2:01 PM] Caity: much like seinfeld

[2:01 PM] Leah F: what if the guy went to jail for breaking the door

[2:01 PM] Caity: A Seinfeld Episode

[2:01 PM] Jason Parham: Like Seinfeld (and This Story), Man Who Broke Seinfeld Door Is Not Funny or Interesting

[2:02 PM] Max Read: im splicing a jalop

[2:02 PM] Caity: Man to Be Shot After Damaging Seinfeld Door We Love

[2:02 PM] Leah F: lolol

[2:03 PM] taylor: To celebrate making old episodes of Seinfeld available to the American public for the first time, Hulu created a replica of Jerry’s apartment in a place where the show’s characters never ventured: the Meatpacking District. Yesterday, on day one of the exhibit, some fool broke it.

This seemed like a good story to write up but it’s actually a bad one about a person who is annoying, so here are some other headlines we considered:

Bum...Ba Din Ding Dun POP! Ba Dun POP! Broken Door

Like Seinfeld, Man Who Broke Seinfeld Door Is Not Funny or Interesting

No Soup For Man Who Broke Seinfeld Door!!!

Man to Be Shot After Damaging Seinfeld Door We Love

[2:03 PM] Caity: To celebrate making old episodes of Seinfeld available to the American public for the first time — is this a joke

[2:03 PM] Leah F: NOT to be devils advocate but i’m going to

[2:03 PM] Leah F: i dont like when we say what headliens we were gonna do in posts